Search results

Explore only content tagged with
400 Results
Sorted by relevance

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… permits held. catchment (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water bodies that convey the water and the land surface from which water drains into those bodies. club … pollutants that accumulate with little or very slow degradation because the capacity of the environment to …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Role of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

… COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … COMMUNITIES RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION LIFE ON LAND PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS CLIMATE ACTION … forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss). The multilateral …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… 2. Valuing and Managing Watershed Services 21 2.1 Linking land and water use to downstream benefits 21 2.2 Valuation of … units for water management A watershed is the area of land that feeds water into a river, through the process of … only those threatened by or suffering from the impacts of degradation. The fundamental basis for this shift is the …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean

… to multiple pressures, including increasing pollution, degradation of watersheds and the depletion and unsustainable … trend in all the five main pressures on biodiversity (land degradation, climate change, pollution from nutrients, … the greatest risks to biodiversity stem from the change of land use, with the consequent reduction, fragmentation and …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… and mountain glaciers; higher frequency of extreme events; degradation and transformation; partitioning; and, biotic … migration related to temperature change and loss of arable land, increased exposure to insect vectors of disease, and … environmental compartments such as the oceans, ice, and land masses. Chapter 4 investigates the potential for changes …
25 May 2026 Document

Technical Guidelines on wastes collected from households (Y46)

… Also, injuries from infected sharps; - Loss of productive land due to the presence of non-biodegradable items; - … 12. Historically, household waste has been disposed of by land filling. As communities became larger and more premises … for example, wet pulverization also will promote enhanced degradation. Some countries prohibit the addition of liquids …
25 May 2026 Document

Nature-based solutions to address climate change

… with other stressors that impact biodiversity, such as degradation and fragmentation of natural habitats, … or another, on ecosystem health and proper functioning, in land, coastal or marine environments. Thus, healthy, … are also important. Peat bogs, which cover only 3% of the land surface, contain globally twice as much carbon as …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach

… REDD reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation SATIIM Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous … as resulting not only from drought but from land degradation linked to loss of natural vegetation … riches. According to the views of many indigenous peoples, land should not be torn open and exploited, which they …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Green Infrastructure Guide for Water Management: Ecosystem-based management approaches for water-related infrastructure projects

… and quantity of water supply, as a result of ecosystem degradation. For example, conventional flood management … pollution is diffuse runoff from cultivated or industrial land. Some of the most frequently used infrastructure … sense of security and, when coupled with inappropriate land-use patterns - such as dense housing within deep …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Forest fires and the law: a guide for national drafters based on the fire management voluntary guidelines

… The most common causes of forest fires are human-induced: land clearing (especially for shifting cultivation, other … Fire management is the discipline of using fire to achieve land management and traditional use objectives, together with … in fire-sensitive or fire-intolerant ecosystems, site degradation, desertification and soil erosion and depletion …
25 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX